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...Hegel justified the carnage in the name of freedom. Witnessing the bloodshed of World War I. Jakob is less sanguine. Arbitrariness in physics, the standard of order, reflects the emergent nationalism of bureaucrats and the social chaos such faceless patriotism creates. As classical physics becomes classical, the state wages war with it. The pure motives of truth for truth's sake are corrupted in the rush to find new and destructive uses for physics. Machine guns, poison gas, and airplanes now down a generation of young men, some of them physicists. Their elders, frustrated generals like the institute's director...
...nothing else should hold back the passage of the McKinney bill. This legislation will not bring faceless swarms of immigrants crawling to our shores--it will merely place the Amerasians in their proper place at the head of the line for immigration. And the bill will not carelessly split up families--not all Amerasians will need to be brought to the States, and some will be better integrated into their present societies...
...Clare the Congresswoman from Connecticut (1943-47) and the Ambassador to Italy (1953-56): "A celebrity ambassador can draw more attention than a diplomat should, but she can also publicize certain national interests better than a faceless functionary. Clare seems to have got this just about right and she made a noise only about the few things that mattered...
...sappy strings, music by rote, lyrics by reflex. Says one major record executive: "In the 1960s, commercialism and the heart of rock were pretty much the same. In 1982 the commercial center and the soul of the music are different. It's no accident that these bland, faceless groups with no defined image, no personality, no boldness have the largest-selling albums. They're the easiest to sell...
...practically devoid of traffic after dark. But worse than these obvious signs is the apparent death of the spirit. Poland is a nation of individuals. The most ordinary worker wears his cap just so and has his own look. Now, when you walk through Warsaw, the people somehow seem faceless...